Finding Nemo is the first Pixar film to be released during the summer. It's been in the works for a looooooong time, about 3 years plus. According to one animation site, there will be lots of stuff for the DVD. However, it's the film that is important don't you think?

Buzz (not Lightyear) is very good on it. Pixar made many changes during the last six months. One thing to look for will be a "preview" of the next Pixar film, "The Incredibles" with a character from the film popping up in Nemo.
The new trailer is beautiful by the way.

Disney certainly didn't think it was...it was probably just convenient placement of the new story that they had worked on. Such placement allowed them to have "young Simba" again, a character which was a large part of the success of the first movie. I'm sure they hope it figures into more money for this release as well.

Conclusion: It's all about making a profit. Without that motivation, noone's in business to begin with. :wink:

Yes, it is - it's so many that this CAN'T be right. Nothing's ever opened on more than about 3700 screens - Nemo's going to top that by almost 50%??? That's gotta be wrong - 3500 makes a lot more sense...

I think they mean there will be 5,500 prints available (i.e. they are actually using screens in it's real context, rather than meaning number of cinemas). In this case, it isn't all that much - Harry Potter had something like 8,000 prints in the US on release, and The Matrix Reloaded will have something similar...

The DVD of LK1½ will feature numerous extras, such as a mockumentary tracing Timon's childhood; a making of featurette; a collection of funny moments in Disney animated movies; an interactive tour of the Pridelands; a trivia game; deleted scenes and music videos.

Presumably the "Music Videos" will be Timon and Pumbaa singing "Stand By Me" (which I think was released as a pre-movie short) and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".

Saw "Nemo" a few days ago. Just a tremendously entertaining film. Amazing animation. I'm seeing it again - and maybe just sitting through a couple of showings - when it comes out 5/30. Good sound, too (Gary Rydstrom sound mix)

Personally, I really wonder why Disney even bothers with direct to video sequels.......correct that- it's about profit as David has already mentioned. I find all these sequels so very pathetic and uninspired...Walt Disney himself is probably spinning in his grave considering what Eisner is doing with his company. When I think of Disney animated films, I think of them this way - The original will be great, but the sequels will be always be low quality crap...and I avoid them without question. You listening Disney?

Now if Disney wants to do a sequel right, they should take a lesson from PIXAR (Toy Story 2). Now there's a company that cares about its product. Can't wait to see 'Finding Nemo' as well.

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Personally, I really wonder why Disney even bothers with direct to video sequels

Personally, I really wonder why Disney even bothers with sequels to be released to cinemas. I mean, Return to Neverland? Jungle Book 2? Toy Story 2 being the exception, they're crap.

Now, regarding LK2 - Only saw it once, thought it was awful. If LK was Hamlet without the incest (which it was), then LK2 was Romeo and Juliet without the tragedy. I finished watching it and just thought "What was the point, other than money?"

Now, regarding Belle's Enchanted Christmas - a truly awful concept (although I confess to having never seen it). As I understand it, that is a film set during the time of the original "Beauty and the Beast", which clearly only spanned a couple of weeks (let's leave the issue of falling in love over such a small period of time). How is it possible they celebrated Christmas in that small time period with no mention of it in the original film? The whole approach of Disney in churning out sequels (or in this case, midquels) without giving thought to whether they even make sense in the context of the original films is appalling.

Disney really doesn't care if the films make sense to adults, or if the sequels/prequels/midquels make sense to us in the context of the big storyline of these characters.

They are trying to please the kiddies. And they count on the kiddies to beg, plead, cajole, and demand of their parents that these things get bought.

And it works very well!

Further, I will go on to say that BatB: Christmas works well enough (so what if they didn't mention the holiday season in the original storyline...think of it as "edited for time", and here's a missing chapter that makes its own semi-interesting story). LK2 is pretty decent (my big problem with it is that Simba seemed to have forgotten some of the lessons of the first movie...but then, we all forget our life lessons from time to time, don't we?). Return to Neverland was another decent one. At first I was uncomfortable with the war stuff in "our world", but as the story unfolded it all made more sense. I just wasn't sure I was ready to explain "war" to my son yet. But he really didn't bother with it once Peter Pan appeared on the screen regularly (and of course since then the whole Iraq conflict appearing on the news has become a different way of having to deal with that issue with my son...but that's another topic).

While I agree that the graphics on these three are below the level used for the films they spun off from, they are hardly not-film-worthy and definately above the class of animation used for TV fare (Tarzan & Jane, for example).

Even when you have a clearly inferior spin-off product on your hands, you will fork over $15-$20 sometimes to make the child happy. Disney counts on this. It is too bad that they must look like they are being so mercenary about it, but after all, a business is in business to make money. That means make it cheap, and sell it for as much as you can. Sorry.

Indications are that they will take at least as much care with LK 1.5 as they did with LK2, perhaps more. And Timon & Pumbaa remain highly popular with the kids, my own son included. So this will probably sell pretty well. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it.

How is it possible they celebrated Christmas in that small time period with no mention of it in the original film?

Well, there IS the "getting to know you" montage in the first flick - theoretically it all could have happened there, though the fact that Christmas includes a major piece of drama makes it an odd story to insert into the middle of things.

In any case, Christmas does bite. But at least it's better than Belle's Magical World, one of Disney's sorriest direct-to-video pieces...

Even when you have a clearly inferior spin-off product on your hands, you will fork over $15-$20 sometimes to make the child happy. Disney counts on this. It is too bad that they must look like they are being so mercenary about it, but after all, a business is in business to make money. That means make it cheap, and sell it for as much as you can. Sorry.

I don't know. I just hope, when I'm a parent, that I will teach my kids to watch good quality films rather than any old crap Disney produces. That means I show them Snow White or Beauty and the Beast, but not Atlantis: Milo's Return or The Jungle Book 2. Plus I'll try to introduce them to the many other great non-Disney children's films. I want my kids to be happy if they're watching good films, not rubbish.

I probably won't succeed, and the parental pressures will probably be too much, but I want to think I tried.

The truth is, the timeframe of the film is very much distorted - problem is, "Christmas" amplifies the problem by throwing in an entire holiday seasons that was never even mentioned.

I'm sure the folks at Disney figured, "Hey, it snowed in the movie - there's your Christmas!" And they also figured - probably correctly - that the intended audience wouldn't pick these particular nits. I agree with you that it's a crock, though...

I just hope, when I'm a parent, that I will teach my kids to watch good quality films rather than any old crap Disney produces.

Well.....good luck with that.

Kids will watch anything that amuses them whether it is good or not. It could be the best quality kids film but if they are bored by it, nothing you do will make them watch it...at least until they are old enough to know better. Kids will be kids, right?

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